Academic Articles & Research Papers

Nanotechnology: A Revolution in Modern Industry

Nanotechnology, contrary to its name, has massively revolutionized industries around the world. This paper predominantly deals with data regarding the applications of nanotechnology in the modernization of several industries. A comprehensiv...

Nanotechnology for the biologist

Nanotechnology refers to research and technology development at the atomic, molecular, and macromolecular scale, leading to the controlled manipulation and study of structures and devices with length scales in the 1- to 100-nanometers range...

Designing a Model for Improving Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs)

Business improvement has always been one of the basic issues in the business world. Due to the growing changes in technology, pervasive competition and the changing needs of customers, companies must pay attention to the permanence and impr...

Determination and Evaluation of the Interlaminar Shear Modulus of Polyvinyl Butyral with Fibre Optic Sensors

The method of fibre optic strain measurement based on Rayleigh signal analysis enables the detection of the deformation behaviour of laminated glass and the modelling of its load-bearing characteristics. The measurement system is already ca...

Simulation Study on Mechanical Characteristics of Rock Bolt in Rock Mass with Bedding Separation Based on the Nonlinear Bond Slip Relationship

The mechanical equation on the mechanical characteristics of rock bolt in rock mass with bedding separation is established, based on the bond slip relationship of anchoring interface by the load transfer method. The validity of the numerica...

Design Considerations for a Distributed Low-Cost Air Quality Sensing System for Urban Environments in Low-Resource Settings

With rapid urbanization, hazardous environmental exposures such as air, noise, plastic, soil and water pollution have emerged as a major threat to urban health. Recent studies show that 9 out of 10 people worldwide breathe contaminated air ...

Minimizing churn in distributed systems

A pervasive requirement of distributed systems is to deal with churn-change in the set of participating nodes due to joins, graceful leaves, and failures. A high churn rate can increase costs or decrease service quality. This paper studies ...

Performance debugging for distributed systems of black boxes

Many interesting large-scale systems are distributed systems of multiple communicating components. Such systems can be very hard to debug, especially when they exhibit poor performance. The problem becomes much harder when systems are compo...

Understanding replication in databases and distributed systems

Replication is an area of interest to both distributed systems and databases. The solutions developed from these two perspectives are conceptually similar but differ in many aspects: model, assumptions, mechanisms, guarantees provided, and ...

A brief introduction to distributed systems

Distributed systems are by now commonplace, yet remain an often difficult area of research. This is partly explained by the many facets of such systems and the inherent difficulty to isolate these facets from each other. In this paper we pr...

Real time groupware as a distributed system

This paper exposes the concurrency control problem in groupware when it is implemented as a distributed system. Traditional concurrency control methods cannot be applied directly to groupware because system interactions include people as we...

<b>Assessing different holding pen cooling systems through environmental variables and productivity of lactating cows

This studyaimed to assess different holding pen climatization systems for dairy cattle through environmental variables, milk production and economic indexes. Sixteen lactating cows were used, distributed in a 4 x 4 Latin square design consi...

Distributed systems: Concepts and design

Distributed System Design

Future requirements for computing speed, system reliability, and cost-effectiveness entail the development of alternative computers to replace the traditional von Neumann organization. As computing networks come into being, one of the lates...

The V distributed system

The V distributed System was developed at Stanford University as part of a research project to explore issues in distributed systems. Aspects of the design suggest important directions for the design of future operating systems and communic...

Evaluating the scalability of distributed systems

Many distributed systems must be scalable, meaning that they must be economically deployable in a wide range of sizes and configurations. This paper presents a scalability metric based on cost-effectiveness, where the effectiveness is a fun...

Distributed systems

Growth of distributed systems has attained unstoppable momentum. If we better understood how to think about, analyze, and design distributed systems, we could direct their implementation with more confidence....

Guiding the Self-Organization of Cyber-Physical Systems

Self-organization offers a promising approach for designing adaptive systems. Given the inherent complexity of most cyber-physical systems, adaptivity is desired, as predictability is limited. Here I summarize different concepts and approac...

Design and Practice of Green and Low-Carbon Urban Rail Transit Planning

[Objective] To achieve cost efficiency and low-carbon transformation in rail transit, the planning, design, and implementation of green and low-carbon urban rail transit systems is investigated. [Method] Aiming at life-cycle sustainable dev...

Pore-Throat-Adaptive Transport and Flow-Redistribution Mechanisms of Deformable Hydrogel Particles in Tight Reservoirs of the Ordos Basin

Tight reservoirs commonly exhibit strong pore-throat confinement and flow heterogeneity, which cause injected water to preferentially migrate through connected high-conductivity pathways while a large fraction of movable fluids remains unde...